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Date:   Wed, 10 Mar 2021 21:04:06 +0100
From:   Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To:     gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
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        "Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre@mecheye.net>,
        Chris Chiu <chiu@endlessos.org>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.10 23/49] ACPI: video: Add DMI quirk for GIGABYTE
 GB-BXBT-2807
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Hi!

> From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
>=20
> From: Jasper St. Pierre <jstpierre@mecheye.net>

Something is funny with the From header here. But that's not main
thing -- this patch is evil.

> Unfortunately, the backlight controller only confuses userspace, which
> sees the existence of a backlight device node and has the unrealistic
> belief that there is actually a backlight there!

> +++ b/drivers/acpi/video_detect.c
> @@ -140,6 +140,13 @@ static const struct dmi_system_id video_detect_dmi_t=
able[] =3D {
>  	},
>  	{
>  	.callback =3D video_detect_force_vendor,
> +	.ident =3D "GIGABYTE GB-BXBT-2807",
> +	.matches =3D {
> +		DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "GIGABYTE"),
> +		DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "GB-BXBT-2807"),
> +		},
> +	},
> +	{
>  	.ident =3D "Sony VPCEH3U1E",
>  	.matches =3D {
>  		DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "Sony Corporation"),

Yup, and it looks like this fixes the problem for GIGABYTE
GB-BXBT-2807 but re-introduces the problem for Sony VPCEH3U1E.

Best regards,

							Pavel
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http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek

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